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Nepal
नेपाल राष्ट्रिय महिला फुटबल टिम

Nickname(s)	Nepali Cheli's
Association	All Nepal Football Association
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Sub-confederation	SAFF (South Asia)
Head coach	Hari Khadka
Captain	Niru Thapa[1]
Most caps	Anu Lama (19)
Top scorer	Anu Lama (30)
Home stadium	Dasarath Rangasala
FIFA code	NEP
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	108 (7 December 2018)[2]
Highest	92 (December 2009)
Lowest	128 (August 2012)
First international
Nepal 0–1 Hong Kong  (Hong Kong; 14 December 1986)
Biggest win
Nepal 13–0 Afghanistan  (Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh; 14 December 2010)
Biggest defeat
Japan 14–0 Nepal    (Hong Kong; 24 December 1989)  Japan 14–0 Nepal (Barotac Nuevo, Philippines; 12 November 1999)
Women's Asian Cup
Appearances	3 (first in 1986)
Best result	Group stage

The Nepal women's national football team, otherwise known as Nepali Cheli's (Nepalese Sisters)^{[citation needed]} is controlled by the All Nepal Football Association and represents Nepal in women's international football competitions. It is a member of the Asian Football Confederation and the South Asian Football Federation and has yet to qualify for the World Cup.

History

Formation

Nepal formed a women's national team in the mid-1980s and debuted in the 1986 AFC Women's Championship. During the start of the tournament, Nepal played their first official match against Hong Kong (December 14, 1986), which they lost with a score of 1-0. Nepal women's side also participated in the final three phases of the Asian Cup in 1986, 1989 and 1999, never going beyond the group stages. Nepal proved to be in a difficult group with former champions Thailand, alongside Indonesia and Hong Kong, two relatively strong teams. As a result, Nepal had lost all three matches, two of them indefinitely, while the match against Hong Kong proved to be a steady profit. In 1989 Nepal played again in the championship, against the same opponents, except that Thailand was substituted against Japan. This resulted in ugly points for Nepal, who lost every game by a wide margin, the smallest 0-3 against Hong Kong.

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Crisis years

As a result of the democracy uprising in 1990, there was an eight-year period without women national team. This negatively affected player recruitment, but nevertheless Nepal soon returned into international football during the Women's Asian Cup in 1999. Despite their triumphant return, the results were about the same as before the eight-year hiatus. The championship ended in the group-stage with Japan, Thailand, Uzbekistan and the Philippines, where Nepal lost all four games. Since then, Nepal has not appeared in the Women's Asian cup. Former men's national team technical director, Holger Obermann served as the technical advisor for the Chelis during their 1999 campaign.^[3]

However, this does not mean that Nepal had not played football since 1999. The Mangladevi League, roughly a month-long women's football tourney, was set up trying to bring in women football players across the country. It was played in early 2000, in a league-cum-knockout basis. It was an initiative taken by a single person, but sadly discontinued after a year.^[4]

Nepal had a long period without matches, but they impressed many in the South Asian Games in 2010, where they reached the final after beating several opponents by a wide margin . In the finals they lost narrowly 1-3 against the big favorite India. This gave the national team a much needed recognition. The 11th South Games also was the first to host a women's football event as well.^[5] In the opening match of the 2010 South Asian Games, Nepal women's U23 faced hosts Bangladesh, where they won with a single goal. The second match against Sri Lanka proved to be more illustrious as victory came in the form of 8 goals while holding a clean sheet. However, the scoring spree was short lived as the third group-stage match against India saw a heavy 0-5 loss. Nevertheless, Nepal had done enough to qualify for the second round (semi finals) against Pakistan which they won with a resounding 7-0 scoreline. This meant that Nepal would face a difficult rematch against India in the finals, although any result would ensure a medal at the very least for the Chelis. Despite finally ending the scoring drought against India, the game was lost 1-3. Despite putting on a valiant performance, the Chelis returned home with a silver medal which came to the delight of many supporters of Nepalese football due to the rarity of the occasion.

Regeneration

The regeneration of Women's football in Nepal was first realised when after the national leagues were reinstated in 2009. The women's national team prior to this, hadn't played an international game for 5 years. Nevertheless, the Chelis began training for two upcoming major international tournaments in the following year. In 2010, Nepali women footballers returned with two runner-up trophies, one from the 11th South Asian Games, and the other from the SAFF Women's Football Championship. Despite limited training, resources and less attention compared to the men's team, the women's team had performed exceedingly well internationally. In the South Asian Games, they defeated Sri Lanka 8-0, and in SAFF they thrashed Afghanistan 13-0 and Pakistan 11-0. Striker Anu Lama was the star of SAFF, scoring three hat-tricks to be declared the best player of the tournament. However, the team was defeated 0-5 by India in the SAG final, but it was a much more closely fought match when they lost 0-1 to the same team in the SAFF final recently.

Following the team's regeneration since 2010, the women's side rose 22 places in the FIFA ranking.^[6]

Home stadium

The stadium at daytime

The team's home ground is shared with the Nepal national football team at the Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium in central Kathmandu, Nepal. Holding 25,000 spectators, of which 5,000 seated, it is the biggest stadium in Nepal. It is named after Dashrath Chand, one of the martyrs of Nepal. Prior to the 2013 SAFF Championship in Nepal, the Dasarath Rangasala underwent heavy renovation that saw several improvements such as the expansion of seats from 20,000 to 25,000.

Recent results and fixtures

Results accurate up to 8 November 2018.^[7]

Date	Opponent	Result	Score*	Venue	Competition
21 December 2018	Bangladesh			TBA, Sri Lanka	2018 SAFF Women's Championship
19 December 2018	Bhutan			TBA, Sri Lanka	2018 SAFF Women's Championship
17 December 2018	Pakistan			TBA, Sri Lanka	2018 SAFF Women's Championship
13 November 2018	Bangladesh			Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar	2020 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament (First Round)
11 November 2018	Myanmar	D	1-1	Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar	2020 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament (First Round)
8 November 2018	India	D	1-1	Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar	2020 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament (First Round)
31 October 2018	Beijing BG Phoenix F.C.	L	1-2	Xiannongtan Stadium, Beijing, China	Exhibition match[8][9]
30 October 2018	Beijing Sport University	W	3-0	Xiannongtan Stadium, Beijing, China	Exhibition match[8][10]
29 October 2018	Beijing BG Phoenix F.C.	L	1-4	Xiannongtan Stadium, Beijing, China	Exhibition match[8][10]

* Nepal score always listed first

  Win
  Draw
  Loss

Players

Current squad

Nepal women's team coach Dhurba KC has announced a 20-member women's squad for the 2016 South Asian Games to be held in India from Feb. 6-16.^[11][12]

Accurate as of 14 February 2016.^[13]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
16	1GK	Anjali Thumbapo Subba	–	–	–	APF
20	1GK	Lila Lamgade	–	–	–
1	1GK	Namita Dali	(1991-06-16) 16 June 1991 (age 27)	–	–	Nepal Police Club
4	2DF	Ghim Kumari Gurung	–	–	–
3	2DF	Poonam Jarga Magar	–	–	–
15	2DF	Mana Maya Limbu	–	–	–
5	2DF	Amrita Jaisi	–	–	–
2	2DF	Bhagawati Thapa	–	–	–
12	3MF	Sajana Rana	(1987-06-13) 13 June 1987 (age 31)	8	8	New Radiant S.C.
17	3MF	Laxmi Puadel	–	–	–
18	3MF	Deepa Rai	–	–	–
7	3MF	Sapana Lama	–	–	–
6	3MF	Hira Kumari Bhujel	–	–	–
11	3MF	Anita Basnet	–	–	–	APF
10	4FW	Anu Lama	(1987-10-03) 3 October 1987 (age 31)	19	30	APF Club
8	4FW	Deepa Adhikari	–	–	–
14	4FW	Niru Thapa	–	–	–
9	4FW	Sabitra Bhandari	–	–	–
13	4FW	Anjali Waiba	–	–	–
19	4FW	Krishna Khatri	–	–	–

Coaching staff

Head Coach	Hari Khadka[14]
Manager	Bimala Paudel
Officials	Pramila Singh Shrestha
	Pravin Kumar Yadav

Competitive record

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

***Red border colour indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup
Year	Result	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1991	Did Not Qualify
1995
1999
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019	TBD
Total	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

AFC Women's Asian Cup

AFC Women's Asian Cup
Year	Result	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1975	Did Not Enter (No team)
1977
1979
1981
1983
1986	Round 1	3	0	0	3	0	12	-12	0
1989	Round 1	3	0	0	3	0	25	-25	0
1991	Did Not Enter
1993
1995
1997
1999	Round 1	4	0	0	4	1	30	-29	0
2001	Did Not Enter
2003
2006
2008
2010
2014
2018
Total	3/18	10	0	0	10	1	67	-66	0

SAFF Women's Championship

SAFF Women's Championship
Year	Result	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
2010	Runner up	5	4	0	1	34	1	+33	12
2012	Runner up	5	4	0	1	24	4	+20	12
2014	Runner up	5	4	0	1	17	6	+11	12
2016	Semi Final	4	3	0	1	19	3	+16	9
2018	TBA
Total	4/4	19	15	0	4	94	14	+80	45

Olympic Games

Olympic Games
Year	Result	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1996	Did Not Enter
Total	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Asian Games

Asian Games
Year	Result	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1990	Did Not Enter
1994
1998
2002
2006
2010
2014
2018
Total	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

South Asian Games

South Asian Games[15]
Year	Result	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
2010	Silver	5	3	0	2	17	9	+8	9
2016	Silver	5	3	1	1	9	4	+5	10
2019	TBA
Total	2/2	10	6	1	3	26	13	+13	19

Notable players

• Anu Lama


• Jamuna Gurung


• Sajana Rana


• Sabitra Bhandari


• Lila Lamgade

-Best goalkeeper of the Year 2013AD,2014AD and 2015AD

See also

• Nepal women's national under-23 football team


• All Nepal Football Association


• Football in Nepal


• Nepal at the Asian Games


• Nepal national football team


• Nepal national under-17 football team


• Nepal national under-20 football team

References